The Game Industry Reacts to the Bungie-Activision Breakup

General consensus: people are happy for Bungie.

By Ryan Mccaffrey

Today's industry-shaking news that prominent game developer Bungie and titanic publisher Activision were ending their planned 10-year agreement roughly halfway in – with Bungie retaining the Destiny IP and planning to continue supporting and self-publishing the popular game – sent shockwaves throughout the gaming community.

Reactions were swift and fairly universal in their enthusiasm and support for the one-time Halo developer. We've rounded up a handful of them below:

Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox

Cliff Bleszinski, longtime Epic Games developer and creator of Gears of War

DeeJ, Bungie Community Manager

Mark Rein, Epic Games Vice President

Mike Ybarra, Xbox Corporate Vice President

Rami Ismail, Vlambeer Games

Nick Chester, Epic Games Public Relations Manager

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